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There is no need to do anything. You do not have to find a balance; the balance will find you. Simply move.

When the valley comes, go into the valley. When darkness surrounds, enjoy it, feel blissful in the velvety touch of it. Move into it, into the infinite magnificence of it. Darkness has a soothing quality no light can have.

And the valley is a rest – like the night, like death.

There is no need to try to find a balance. The balance will find you.

Simply move into the valley. When the valley comes, accept it – not only accept it, welcome it, enjoy it, delight in it. Darkness is beautiful. And when the valley goes and you move toward the peak, that too is perfectly beautiful. It is beautiful – the light, the morning, the sun.

Don’t cling to anything. Clinging creates trouble. Through clinging, anguish comes.

If you cling to the peak and you say, “I would not like to go to the valley again,” then you will be in trouble. Then, at the very peak you have created the valley. Then, already the suffering has started. You are afraid. Fear has entered, the agony is already there. You are no longer happy; you have destroyed the peak.

When you are in the valley, you will suffer because “now the valley has come.” You will suffer the valley and you will not be able to enjoy the peak.

This is the ordinary situation.

When you are happy, you become afraid. Is this happiness going to stay or will it be gone? Now this fear eats happiness like a worm, poisons it. You are happy, and yet you are not happy. Something is already dead: you have become apprehensive about the future. And when you are unhappy, of course, you are unhappy.

When you are happy you cannot be happy – how can you be happy when you are unhappy? So the whole of life becomes a vicious circle of unhappiness.

Now, listen!

When you are at the peak, dance. I know, and you know, that the peak is not going to last forever. There is no need.

If it lasts forever, it will be such a tension that you will not be able to tolerate it. It will be such an excitement that you will not find any rest in it. It will be dangerous, it will kill you.

There is no need for it to last forever. But while it lasts, dance, enjoy, and sing it – knowing well it is going to be lost again. But knowing it, one has to enjoy it more before it is lost.

Remember, this is the miracle: when you enjoy it more, it lasts longer.

When you are happy in it and dancing, it forgets to go away from you, it lingers with you. When you don’t cling to it, it clings to you. This is the whole secret.

And when it is gone, then too it is not gone. It has given you such a deep blissfulness that now you can go into the valley and you can rest in darkness. Then the valley becomes relaxation and the peak becomes enjoyment. Then the peak becomes the day and the valley becomes the night: then the peak becomes activity and the valley becomes passivity.

One has to enjoy the night also. That is the only way to enjoy the day. And if you enjoy the day, a great night comes with great rest. It refreshes you, rejuvenates you.

Always remember: the greater the peak, the greater the valley will be. Otherwise how can the peak be greater?

If you go to the Himalayas, then you will find the greater the peak the greater the valley. If you are afraid of the valley, then don’t ask for the peaks. Then move on plain ground. There will be no peak and no valley.

That is the most miserable life – where there is no peak, no valley. One simply vegetates. It is not a life. One simply drags. It is a monotony. It is not a dialogue; it is a monologue.

A dialogue needs duality, a dialogue needs contradiction, a dialogue needs polarity, a dialogue needs paradox. And within the paradox, you move from one pole to another.

Don’t be worried about balance. Balance will seek you; I will see that balance seeks you. Simply do this much: while on the peak, dance. While in the valley, rest. Accept the valley; accept the peak. Both are parts of the one whole and you cannot deny one part. They are two aspects of the same coin.

Remember, one who enjoys more is bound to suffer more because he becomes very sensitive.

But suffering is not bad. If you understand it rightly, suffering cleanses. If you understand it rightly, sadness has a depth to it no happiness can ever have.

A person who is simply happy is always superficial. A person who has not known sorrow and has not known sadness, has not known the depths. He has not touched the bottom of his being; he has remained just on the periphery. One has to move within these two banks. Within these two banks flows the river.

And I tell you, balance will seek you if you accept both and you live both. Whatever happens, welcome it. Suddenly, one day you will see that balance has come, and when balance comes to you, then it is something totally different from that balance you can force upon yourself.

If you force the balance, it will be a sort of control, and a control is always artificial, and a control is always ugly, and a control has a violence in it. It is forced, artificial.

When balance comes to you, it is a happening. Suddenly it descends on you. Heavens open and the spirit of God, like a dove, descends in you.

All that is great always comes. All that you make is always small, petty. It is never great. All that you do is going to be lesser than you. All that is great, you have to allow. Balance will find you.

God will find you. Just be ready.

And this is readiness: to accept whatever comes, to accept it with gratefulness. Even sorrow, even sadness, even the dark valley.